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The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is a public health agency of the African Union to support the public health initiatives of member states and strengthen the capacity of their health institutions to deal with disease threats.
Health in the Central African Republic has been degraded by years of internal conflict and economic turmoil since independence from France in 1960. One sixth of the country's population is in need of acute medical care. Endemic diseases put a high demand on the health infrastructure, which requires outside assistance to sustain itself. [2] [3]
There is evidence that climate change will have negative impacts on public health in South Africa, especially due to the high proportion of vulnerable people. [25] There is already a high burden of disease in South Africa linked to environmental stressors and climate change will exacerbate many of these social and environmental issues. [26]
That led the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention to declare a continent-wide public health emergency on Aug. 13. So far, however, no cases of the new subclade have been identified ...
Africa's public health agency is set to declare an mpox emergency as early as next week, saying the viral infection's rate of spread is alarming, as a new variant moves across Democratic Republic ...
By Jessica Donati (Reuters) -Africa's top public health body declared what it termed a "public health emergency of continental security" on Tuesday over an outbreak of mpox that has spread from ...
Health problems have been a long-standing issue limiting development in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo). The Human Rights Measurement Initiative [1] finds that the Democratic Republic of the Congo is fulfilling 73.1% of what it should be fulfilling for the right to health based on its level of income. [2]
By 2016, individuals who had private health insurance spent over three times as much as those with public health insurance. [14] Currently, only 16% of the population uses the private sector health system, while the public sector health system accounts for the remaining 84% of the population. [ 13 ]